Sendmail

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Tue Apr 12 08:56:01 UTC 2005


Gregory P. Ennis wrote:

> sendmail is a great module, but it takes more than forever to understand
> all of it, and a long time to understand enough to make a simple set up
> work.  I would strongly reccommned the 'bat' book by O'Rielly.  There is
> also a 'sendmail cookbook' by O'Rielly that I have found very useful.


The very fact that you have to read a book to setup email
suggests to me that sendmail is _not_ "a great module".
It is a terrible mess.

I reckon 10 sample sendmail.mc's would cover 99.9% of home Linux users,
so I don't think there should be any need to read a book
unless one is running a system with hundreds of users,

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